When Facebook decided to launch the new design last week, they received very little feedback in contrast to the previous redesign which went through substantial user testing over the period of months. To start, the New Layout Vote application that I wrote about yesterday has surged to over 2.16 million monthly active users despite Facebook’s attempts to decrease its spread by limiting invites to two users per day.
One user, Jason Kulas, has gone so far as to develop an extensive protest resource guide and there are plenty of references to articles and groups that have been created to protest the design. One group called “MEMBERS WANT THE OLD FACEBOOK BACK” has surged in popularity to 306,000 members and is growing by the minute.
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